PSY 324 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Psy, Functional Fixedness, Backtracking
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Psy 324 exam 3 study guide fall 08. Know all the views or approaches to categorization. Be able to explain evidence (research) to support these approaches. Be able to explain problems with each approach. Identify examples of what happens to existing schemata when unfamiliar information is introduced. Describe cohen"s 1981 study on the influence of occupational stereotypes on behavior. Know the different methods and examples of learning by way of visual imagery. Know the primary principle of the relational-organizational hypothesis/theory. Know the findings of the brooks (1968) study involving mental pictures of letters. Know the study involving the symbolic distance effect. Know the differences between focused and unfocused thinking. Know the differences between a well-defined and ill-defined problem. Be able to identify examples of the following problem-solving strategies: Know the results of the hyman and pentland (1996) study on reality monitoring. Be able to explain the hunt study involving ability differences. Identify characteristics of hernstein and murray"s bell curve model.
